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Farhad J. Dadyburjor has been an entertainment and lifestyle journalist for over 14 years, having extensively covered the worlds of fashion, Bollywood, society, and culture. He has been the Launch Editor of FHM India as well as part of the start-up team of DNA After Hrs and is currently a Consulting Editor with Hi! Blitz. How I Got Lucky is his first book. He lives in Mumbai.

Mark Mazzetti is a national security correspondent for the New York Times. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington’s response. He has won numerous other major journalism awards, including the George Polk Award (with colleague Dexter Filkins) and the Livingston Award, for breaking the story of the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes. Mazzetti has also written for the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, and the Economist. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Dr Pradeep G. Talwalkar has been practising diabetology for three
decades now. Formerly a postgraduate teacher of internal medicine,
he now teaches diabetology.
A sought-after speaker at various conferences, symposiums and
continuing medical education programmes, Dr Talwalkar has lectured
extensively all over India. He is very active on the patient education
front: besides conducting workshops and seminars, he uses the print,
radio, television and online media to spread awareness about diabetes
among patients and caregivers.
Dr Talwalkar has attended numerous international conferences on
diabetes and visited several centres of excellence in the fi eld. He has
actively participated in all conferences of the International Diabetes
Federation since the 1988 conference in Sydney, Australia. He has
authored over fi fty papers in national and international journals, and
written and edited books on diabetes for laypeople, family physicians
and consultants. He is the assistant editor of API Textbook of Medicine
(sixth edition), a popular textbook with wide readership in India.